As a medical man, he could safely warrant him to be heart-whole; and the company could bear him witness, that the poet himself seemed very little like the despairing one depicted in his verses.
The Indian Simon calling this forenoon, Rebecca and I went into the kitchen to see him.

He looks fierce and cruel, but he thanked Madain Saltonstall for her gifts of food and clothing, and, giving her in return a little basket wrought of curiously stained stuff, he told her that if there were more like her, his heart would not be so bitter.
I ventured to ask him why he felt thus; whereupon he drew himself up, and, sweeping about him with his arms, said: "This all Indian land.

The Great Spirit made it for Indians.

He made the great river for them, and birch-trees to make their canoes of.

All the fish in the ponds, and all the pigeons and deer and squirrels he made for Indians.